Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 139

But the mother said, ‘No, no, she is much too dirty; she will not dare to show herself.’

Who acts: mother · What happens: say, be, not dare, not show · To what, where: mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dirty	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 dirty	punct
7	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	15 dirty	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dirty	punct
9	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	15 dirty	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dirty	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dirty	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dirty	cop
13	much	much	ADV	_	15 dirty	advmod
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 dirty	advmod
15	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 dare	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dare	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 dare	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 dare	advmod
20	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 show	mark
22	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dare	xcomp
23	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 show	iobj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 dare	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 dare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	mother		dirty property	tree rules
3	not dare	future	mother			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not show	to-infinitive	mother not said here	mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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